The Best Episodes Directed By Yoshihiko Iwata

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   10.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Respective Departures

   S1:E3412/22/2023

   As Diana prepares to leave the Brave Olivine, Amethio battles Hamber to become stronger.

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   10.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - A Challenge from the Explorers

   S1:E433/15/2024

   While shopping in a seaside town, Liko and Roy receive a strange invitation to battle!

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #3 - Roy Is Crocalor, and Crocalor Is Roy!

   S1:E6910/18/2024

   Roy and Crocalor accidentally switch places while exploring a festival in Kitakami.

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   9.7/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Orla and the Poké Ball Smith

   S1:E2911/17/2023

   When a Poké Ball factory goes on the fritz, Orla steps up to the challenge of fixing it!

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - The Door That Never Opens

   S1:E85/26/2023

   While the rest of the crew goes shopping, Liko ramps up her efforts to befriend Dot.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #6 - The Rogue Ninja Orochimaru

   S16:E3522/27/2014

   Orochimaru is forced to flee the Hidden Leaf after Third Hokage Hiruzen exposes his illegal experiments. Danzo, fearing that Orochimaru’s capture would lead to the exposure of his own involvement in the experiments, sends out one of his men to help.

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   8.0/10(5 votes)

   #7 - My True Dream

   S17:E3697/24/2014

   The Senju and Uchiha clans join together to build a shinobi village and fulfill their dreams.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Suspicions Deepening Within Mysteries

   S2:E210/16/2015

   The day of the sports festival is finally here. Though Basara remains cautious of the mysterious enemy who manipulates people with magic, he happily enjoys the sports festival with Mio and Yuki as the three of them compete in the four-legged-race and enjoy their youth getting entangled and sweaty with each other. Meanwhile, Kurumi, who was placed in charge of guarding the school, discovers a suspicious individual. At almost the same time, a giant twister forms on the sports field. Basara fights to protect the students... but an unexpected individual appears!

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   7.4/10(17 votes)

   #9 - Death Gun

   S2:E98/30/2014

   The man in the cape shoots Pale Rider and he is eliminated despite the fact that he has HP remaining. The man says that he is Death Gun, and declares that he will bring true death. Asuna and her friends are watching a live stream of BoB and realize that Death Gun is one of the leaders of Laughing Coffin.

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    7.3/10(4 votes)

    #10 - My First Friend

    S18:E38811/27/2014

    All the Tailed Beasts are freed, and old friends Kakashi and Obito come face to face with each other. What will Obito's response be? Meanwhile, the Tailed Beasts and the Allied Shinobi Forces shift their focus onto their greatest foe, Madara Uchiha. Gaara is reunited with his former Tailed Beast, Shukaku. When Gaara asks Shukaku to lend his power to seal Madara, he refuses. Will their history of animosity prevent them from working together?

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    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Those Who Illuminate the World's Darkness

    S1:E253/31/2024

    Bilac finds jewelry among Sunraku's loot. In order to show them to a jeweler, she introduces Sunraku to Aramiys, the swordsman of Cazzeria, and vice captain of the Musketeers in Boots. Later they head to Eighthold where they encounter the Professor.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - When Humanity Dreams of the Impossible and Takes to the Skies

    S1:E2911/3/2024

    Pencilgon makes a proposal to the other clans. Sunraku forwards his interests in Rabituza, and faces a setback in his farming of the Crystal Scorpions.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - Run, Fueled by Impatience

    S1:E3412/8/2024

    Back in Shangri-La Frontier, Sunraku needs to speed through the game to make his appointment with Mold and Rust. To make it in time, though, he'll have to ask a certain someone for aid.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Revive, Broken City, Your Peace At an End

    S1:E442/16/2025

    Sunraku and his new party fight on the ghost ship and unlock the next stage of the Ctarnidd quest: an underwater city!

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    5.0/10(5 votes)

    #15 - Amidst the Wind Blowing Through the Battlefield

    S2:E511/6/2015

    Ramsus is out to extract the "Demon Lord's Power" that Mio possesses, and Basara reveals his anger at Ramsus' lack of concern for Mio's safety. Just as sparks are about to fly, Shella interrupts them. She leads Basara into the bath to try and help calm him down, and when Zest appears, she orders Zest to massage and wash Basara's body with her bountiful bosom. Then Shella tries to get Basara and Zest to forge a master-servant pact...

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